Difference between Impure and Unchaste

What is the difference between Impure and Unchaste?

Impure as an adjective is not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc. while Unchaste as an adjective is not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.

Impure

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To defile; to [pollute].

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.

Example sentence: All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Unchaste

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.

We hope you now know whether to use Impure or Unchaste in your sentence.

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